December, 2018

Beth Macy, who has spent three decades reporting
on central Appalachia—which she claims is the birthplace of the modern opioid
epidemic—focuses her book on social and economic trends and how they affect
ordinary people.
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November, 2018

Millions of people suffer from serious mental illness, but very few receive consistent
coordinated care. Our article focuses on the use of smartphone technology to better understand
your state of mind and treat depression, schizophrenia, and other disorders.
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October, 2018

Trying to kick
drug addiction without medicines is said to be like relying on willpower to
overcome diabetes or asthma. Enter naltrexone, which has been around since 1984
and reduces the cravings for drugs and alcohol by fine-tuning the brain’s
chemical reward system.
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October, 2018

Thirty years since her first book, Lauren Slater explores the discovery, invention, science, and people behind today's drugs, from the earliest,Thorazine and Lithium, to Ecstasy, "magic mushrooms," and through today's most cutting-edge memory drugs and neural implants.
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April, 2018

As our author writes about the development of the human brain, “what distinguishes
humans from other species is not how small or large, dense or scarce our
cortical neurons are, but simply how many of them we have to do the job of
navigating through life.”
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March, 2018

By: Ronald S. Duman, Ph.D.(Listen to Q&A with Ronald S. Duman, Ph.D.)Our author, a leading researcher in the field of antidepressants, says that the rediscovery of a promising, yet problematic drug called ketamine is the most significant breakthrough for treating depression in half a century. Will ketamine inspire the next generation of antidepressants?

March, 2018

After a distinguished career as a professor at Emory University and San Diego State University, this left-handed author—whose mother was also a southpaw—examines left-handedness in the context of studies that have contested the classifications and meanings of disability, forcing researchers to re-examine their assumptions and attitudes about disability while challenging public policies aimed at them.
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